On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Courier Another dream-inspired chronicle, but hey! Whatever works. Truth be told, the seeds of many chronicles germinated during dreams but the pre-writing phase was usually shortly after waking, and the first draft started...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bridge, Not Too Far For a number of years, the Footloose Forester had wanted to write a chronicle about the missionaries he has known. There were plenty of them, spread out across the globe. Any such chronicle...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Are You Bragging Or Complaining? This chronicle is for you, Red Lee. You are in the center of that mental photograph that flashes in my mind, since that day in early autumn of 1955 when you responded...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Mantras That Endure Of the many would-be chronicles that have struggled toward a birth on paper, this one about spiritual attachment to mantras, has kicked and squirmed its way, finally, to a nascent birth. The personal mantras of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Day in the Cholistan Desert We met in a sparsely furnished office building whose windows rattled when the wind blew. Two young and eager Pakistani soil scientists had been assigned to escort us to one of...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Pani Pulau Snippets of memory, the stuff of legacy stories… That was the theme of a recent chronicle by the Footloose Forester . Today another snippet of a distant memory was jarred loose during a period...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Life Lessons in the Mahjong Tiles Who among frequent computer users does not occasionally play a game or take an anonymous on-line quiz? Call the practice a diversion, a habit, or an addiction…but one thing is clear,...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Getting Arrested This chronicle comes so many years after the fact, that the Footloose Forester was not sure that he would ever write it into his memoirs. At the time, and for many...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Peace Corps Jocks Nobody would believe it if you told them that a rag-tag crew of a mere handful of Peace Corps Volunteers would whip the Pakistanis in both basketball and volley ball...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Practical Lesson in Compass Reading Being around the action in Viet Nam for almost three years led to plenty of predictable moments of violence. But some of the earlier and later encounters were not...
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On the road again..! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Simple Math Problem How do you divide 6 chapattis into equal parts to provide equal portions and a simple lunch for four foresters? The math is simple enough but the problem, at the...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Things Ain’t Always What You Think What would you think if you walked into a well equipped chemical laboratory during the middle of a work day and didn’t see white smocked chemists and technicians as...
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